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In five and half years, Landsberg Prison was the place of execution of 252 condemned war criminals, all of them by hanging. [4] Executions were carried out expeditiously. In May 1946, 28 former SS guards from Dachau were hanged within a four-day period. [ 5 ]
In 1939, she was assigned to oversee a work crew at the new Ravensbrück women's camp near Berlin. In March 1942, Bormann was one of a handful of women selected for guard duty at Auschwitz in occupied Poland. Short in stature, she was known for her cruelty. Victims called her "Wiesel" (weasel) and "the woman with the dogs". [3]
After Moll's conviction, Major Draper, a British military prosecutor, sent an urgent request for an interview to the American prison commandant of Landsberg Prison, where Moll was awaiting execution. He requested an interview with Moll, saying the world needed to know what he had done in Auschwitz.
Maria Mandl (also spelled Mandel; 10 January 1912 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian SS-Helferin ("SS helper") and a war criminal known for her role in the Holocaust as a top-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, [1] where she is believed to have been directly complicit in the deaths of over 500,000 prisoners. [2]
In the foreground, from left to right, are female camp overseers Barkmann, Ewa Paradies, Elisabeth Becker, Wanda Klaff, and Gerda Steinhoff. Barkmann was publicly executed by short-drop hanging along with ten other defendants from the trial on Biskupia Górka Hill near Gdańsk on 4 July 1946. [ 4 ]
Killed a federal prison employee. Linked to 4 other murders; claimed to have killed 22 people. George Barrett: Hanging Murder of a federal officer March 24, 1936 Marion County Jail, Indiana: The first person to be executed under a law that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Arthur Gooch: Hanging Kidnapping ...
Following the delivery of the judgment, the convicted individuals were transferred to various penitentiaries, principally the war crimes prison in Landsberg. Of the 36 death sentences pronounced, 28 were executed by hanging on 28 and 29 May 1946 at Landsberg Prison. The executions took place in camera. [25]
Public execution of Stutthof concentration camp personnel on 4 July 1946 by short-drop hanging.In the foreground, from left to right, are female camp overseers Jenny-Wanda Barkmann, Ewa Paradies, Elisabeth Becker, Wanda Klaff, and Gerda Steinhoff.